Word Meanings - STONERUNNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.

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• RINGWORM
  A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties
• RINGHEAD
  An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
• RING ARMATURE
  An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
• RINGER
  A crowbar. Simmonds. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
• RINGTOSS
  A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
• RINGING
  a & n. from Ring, v. Ringing engine, a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.
• RINGBILL
  The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.
• RING WINDING
  Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core.
• RINGDOVE
  A European wild pigeon having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.
• RINGBONE
  A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.
• RING
  1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell. 2. To make , as by ringing a bell; to sound. The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. Shak. 3. To repeat often, loudly,
• PLOVER
  Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds. (more info) LL. pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from pluere to rain;
• RINGSTRAKED
  Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.
• RINGENT
  Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.
• RINGMASTER
  One in charge of the performances within the ring in a circus.
• DOTTEREL
  Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." Ascham.
• RING-NECKED
  Having a well defined ring of color around the neck. Ring- necked duck , an American scaup duck . The head, neck, and breast of the adult male are black, and a narrow, but conspicuous, red ring encircles the neck. This ring is absent
• RINGTAIL
  A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
• RINGNECK
  Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Ægialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover and the piping plover are common North American species.
• WRINGING
  a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
• SYRINGOCOELE
  The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
• SUSURRINGLY
  In the manner of a whisper.
• NIGHT-FARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• GEER; GEERING
  See GEARING
• PORRINGER
  A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• TWITTERING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• EMBERINGS
  Ember days.
• LUMBERING
  The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
• ENCORPORING
  Incorporation. Chaucer.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• THURINGIAN
  Of or pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its people. -- n.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.